Another added, “Well done @BoyGeorge really proud of you what an amazing performance Bowie will definitely be looking down and felling very proud of you,” as another said: “That was a brilliant performance of Starman by Boy George and the NHS Choir. So moving.”

Well done @BoyGeorge really proud of you what an amazing performance Bowie will definitely be looking down and felling very proud of you :)X

'It's so sad he's leaving'

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One wrote: “Release Starman at Christmas. It’s sad but it will raise more then and that was an out of this world version!”

Another added: “They should release that Boy George cover of Starman as a single, raise money and a tribute to Bowie.”

Speaking to presenter Davina McCall after his performance, Boy George said: “It was amazing to be singing with the NHS choir. It was beautiful.

Boy George leaves fans in tears as he sings David Bowie’s Starman for Channel 4’s Stand Up To Cancer

“A friend of mine said when he [Bowie] passed away, that he was family and I think to a lot of people who grew up in the Seventies, he was like one of our relatives, he was part of us. Losing him was just like losing a family member.”

He also revealed that he had been touched by cancer and said: “My grandmother, my aunt two years ago, a close friend very recently. I know so many people who are fighting it and what’s amazing is that so many people are fighting it now.“